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Hello everyone, my name's James and I'm a 2nd year Product Design student at the University of Brighton, UK.

I've got tons of renders to share with you for feedback and critique, but I'd like to start with a project of mine that was featured on Yanko Design: http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/04/12/k ... -olympics/
I wasn't happy with the way the renders looked on Yanko (partly lack of effort on my part and partly Yanko's reporters being overly generous with Photoshop's Brightness/Contrast sliders), so I decided to go back a few weeks later and have another stab:





HDRI courtesy of http://www.hdrlabs.com (Newport Loft). Post-work with Alien Skin Exposure.

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One of my first projects that I used Maxwell on was this:





There are 3 white emitters, to the left, right, and behind the camera. Behind the speakers is an emitter with a gradient MXI applied. The interface/display was made in Photoshop, saved as an HDR and applied as an emitter in additive mode (needed a mask as well). For reflections the floor has an Nd of 1.01(!) The main speaker material was made using R2 (so cool and so much fun).

The project also spawned these designs:





Much simpler lighting this time, just a studio backplane and 2 temperature emitters at either side. Sorry about the texture repeating but it was either cubic projection and repeat or cylindrical and distort. Only your trained eyes will spot it

This project was featured on many sites, eg: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/colem ... g-speakers

These renders are from my 2010 projects:

Adjustable sunglasses for chronic hypersensitivity sufferers:







Orbiting animation: http://www.youtube.com/embed/pOIdy-IBZiY

Wall mounted folding chair for Vitra:



Post processing with Photoshop & Alien Skin Exposure.

Animation of the assembly & usage: http://www.youtube.com/embed/HjjqQaH-jNs

All feedback and constructive criticism is welcome.

Very nice renders. One critique I have is on the scene with multiple cameras, you should vary the positions of the cords so they aren't so obviously clones.

Great job!

Updated 21st July 2011. Test renders coming soon.

Those camera renders are fantastic! I thought the images before were already good but these are a big step up. Good work.

Thanks Rob!

Here's one I thought would interest the forum, early in the chair project we seriously considered constructing them out of acrylic (in the end we couldn't because of our prototype manufacturing techniques), here is the resulting image:

Very nice images!

I love the acrylic chair.

A little update with something I made recently as a title page for a group dynamics report.



It may still seem noisy at desktop resolution as it was destined for print. I know the phong is dodgy on the table, and that the table top is meant to be glass but it didn't look great so I used plastic instead.

Wheelchair model courtesy of archive3d.net, table model courtesy of loadproject.blogspot.com, chair model courtesy of flyingarchitecture.com

very nice idea !